134 research outputs found
Mythologizing the transition : a comparative study of Bahram Beyzaee and Wolfe Soyinka
No full textBahram Beyzaee, the Iranian playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, and Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist have produced artistic works that transcend the limitations of time and locality to become powerful comments on human life and socio-political and cultural institutions. This research study examines the major themes and dramatic techniques of these two writers to demonstrate how, in two very different cultural settings, traditional modes and themes appear in modem art forms to renegotiate cultural identity. I argue that both writers place themselves in a post postcolonial position which rather than being concerned about 'writing back against the centre' reflects on the cultural shortcomings that leaves their people at the mercy of vicious internal and external forces. I also demonstrate how they demythologize the traditional superstitious beliefs that haunt the present, foreground the inauthenticity of the modern hybrid obsessions that distort everyday life in their countries and mythologize and glorify the positive aspects of history and contemporary life to redefine cultural identity in terms of the best their cultures can offer. The first two chapters give an account of the history of Iranian and Nigerian performance forms in the context of socio-political, cultural, literary and artistic movements and traditions. The third chapter proceeds to present a short discussion of the theatrical vision and themes of Beyzaee and Soyinka and embarks on a general comparison of the two writers. Chapter four is focused on Beyzaee and Soyinka's depiction of the intellectuals as sacrificial heroes whose death may initiate social purgation and cultural regeneration and liberation. Chapter five is less mythical and more sociopolitical. It is a reflection on the writers' portrayal of women in their works and their success or failure in transcending literary and cultural stereotypes in a world where the means of production and socio-economic facts and the cultural developments associated with them demand a rapid movement away from patriarchal values. Chapter six is devoted to the study of another major issue in the process of cultural transition, namely, redefining the position of ethnic minorities in the myth of nationhood. This last chapter is followed by a brief conclusion, discussing the results and the future possibilities of drama in the context of rapid transition
The theatrical works of Bahram Beyzaie : the traditional form of theater and its modernization.
No full textBahram Beyzaie, né en 1938 en Iran, est considéré comme un très grand cinéaste et auteur dramatique de sa génération. Si certains de ses films sont bien connus, son théâtre est moins célèbre à l’étranger parce qu’il a été peu traduit et peu joué. Pour lui le théâtre est le lieu par excellence où renouer avec les formes traditionnelles de spectacle non pas pour les reconstituer mais pour parler au public d’aujourd’hui et lutter contre l’amnésie. Il nourrit donc ses pièces de théâtre, ses films, ses contes et ses narrations de l’héritage culturel oublié de son pays. Cette thèse propose d’examiner l’influence, dans son oeuvre dramatique, des spectacles traditionnels d’Iran tels que le Ta’zieh, le Naghâli ou l’Art du conteur, les marionnettes, la farce du Siyâh Bâzi, ainsi que la trace des mythes et de l’histoire de l’Iran. Dans tout ce qu’il écrit, une importance extrême est accordée à la langue perse utilisée avec virtuosité. De nombreux extraits d’ouvrages de recherche et de pièces sont proposés ici en traduction française. Une importante iconographie accompagne cette étude et rend compte des spectacles que Bahram Beyzaie a mis en scène. Il continue son travail artistique en Californie car il est actuellement un auteur en exil.Born in 1938 in Iran, Bahram Beyzaie is considered as a great filmmaker and playwright of his generation. While some of his films are well known, his theater is less famous abroad because it has been little translated or performed. For him theater is the place where to keep in touch with tradition, not to just preserve it, but to reach today’s public and fight against amnesia. He thus feeds his plays, his films, his tales and his narrations of the forgotten dramatic legacy of his country. This thesis proposes to examine the influence, in his dramatic work, of traditional Iranian performances such as Ta'zieh, Naghali or the Art of Storytelling, Puppet Theater and Siyâh Bâzi or Farce, as well as the traces of the myths and history of Iran. In everything he writes, a prominent place is dedicated to the Persian language used with utmost virtuosity. Many excerpts of texts on the theater and plays are here translated for the first time into French. A very rich iconography, mainly of his own staging of his plays, illustrates the study. Beyzaie continues his artistic work in California where he is presently an author in exile
Dataset of 17K-Graffiti
No full textDownload the 17K-Graffiti dataset and its pre-trained weights on detecting Graffiti. The dataset provides larger graffiti instances containing a variety of graffiti types and annotated boundary boxes.
For additional material regarding Code and data processing, please see the following GitHub repository at
https://github.com/visual-ds/17K-Graffiti
Please cite the published paper, if you find this dataset helpful on your research work:
@conference{visapp22,
author={Bahram Lavi and Eric K. Tokuda and Felipe Moreno-Vera and Luis Gustavo Nonato and Claudio T. Silva and Jorge Poco},
title={17K-Graffiti: Spatial and Crime Data Assessments in São Paulo City},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2022) - Volume 4: VISAPP},
year={2022},
pages={968-975},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010883300003124},
isbn={978-989-758-555-5},
Iranian culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s cinema and theatre:paradigms of being and belonging (1959-1979)
No full textSince the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie's oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of Iranian, Euro-American, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian performance traditions and cinema. Beyzaie's work reformulates indigenous artistic and ritual forms and cultural narratives in plays and films whose emancipatory aesthetics have influenced several generations of writers, playwrights, and filmmakers. This book examines the origins and development of what the author identifies as Beyzaie's unique sense of creativity, using an interdisciplinary method of semiotic and cultural analysis to identify its manifestations in Beyzaie's films and plays of the 1960s and 1970s. It focusses on Beyzaie's early works, such as Downpour and Uncle Moustache, and how they engage with neglected aspects of Iranian culture to challenge mainstream approaches to writing and directing plays and films. In this way, the author argues, Beyzaie's work questions notions of being and belonging, by subverting exclusionist discourses on art, politics, society, culture, self and other, personal and collective identity, gender relations, intellectuals, heroes and villains, and children
Particle detection using closed-loop active model diagnosis
No full textWe demonstrate a novel closed-loop input design technique on the detection of particles in an imaging system such as a fluorescence microscope. The probability of misdiagnosis is minimized while constraining the input energy such that for instance phototoxicity is reduced. The key novelty of the closed-loop design is that each next input is designed based on the most recent information. Using updated hypothesis probabilities, the input energy distribution is optimized for detection such that unresolved pixels have increased illumination next image acquisition. As compared to conventional open-loop, the results show that (regions of) particles are diagnosed using less energy in the closed-loop approach. Besides the closed-loop approach being viable for particle detection in fluorescence microscopy measurements, it can be developed further to apply in different areas such as sequential object segmentation for reliable and efficient product inspection in Industry 4.0.Team Michel VerhaegenTeam Carlas Smit
Examen de la relación entre usos de tierras comerciales y residenciales y consumo de energía usando Gis y modelo Vickor (estudio de caso: Distrito 6)
No full textThe city is a living thing whose population determines its future. Given its administrative and political pole in Iran, Tehran has attracted a significant population and District 6, given the establishment of commercial-administrative centers is the administrative pole. The purpose of the study was to examine and compare the energy consumption in the field of transportation and administrative-commercial buildings. For this purpose, the research method was based on a researcher-made questionnaire based on 6 main variables and 49 items. The sample size of 384 people was selected to reach the results using Cochran's test to answer. The study was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of nature. Data collection was based on library documents, and Vikor test was used to rank energy consumption and reach the final results. It has to be acknowledged that the results showed a significant relationship between social and economic factors in the field of transportation and residential and commercial areas until the end of January 2019. Other cases followed a 5-year pattern with a not-so-low consumption rate. Moreover, there was a significant relationship between pollutant production and energy consumption in the second quarter of each year. The statistical results based on the Vickor model showed that the first and second conditions of the above statistical test were confirmed and Districts 2, 3 and 8 have the best rank in terms of Q value, respectively, and the final result is correct.La ciudad es un ser vivo cuya población determina su futuro. Dado su polo administrativo y político en Irán, Teherán ha atraído una población significativa y el Distrito 6 dado el establecimiento de centros comerciales-administrativos es el polo administrativo. El propósito del estudio fue examinar y comparar el consumo de energía en el ámbito del transporte y edificios administrativos-comerciales. Para ello, el método de investigación se basó en un cuestionario elaborado por el investigador basado en 6 variables principales y 49 ítems y para llegar a los resultados se seleccionó el tamaño de muestra de 384 personas mediante la prueba de Cochran para responder. El estudio se aplicó en términos de propósito y descriptivo-analítico en términos de naturaleza. La recopilación de datos se basó en documentos de la biblioteca y se utilizó la prueba de Vikor para clasificar el consumo de energía y llegar a los resultados finales. Hay que reconocer que los resultados mostraron una relación significativa entre los factores sociales y económicos en el ámbito del transporte y las áreas residenciales y comerciales que hasta finales de enero de 2019. Otros casos siguieron un patrón de 5 años con un no tan bajo tasa de consumo. Además, hubo una relación significativa entre la producción de contaminantes y el consumo de energía en el segundo trimestre de cada año. Los resultados estadísticos basados en el modelo de Vickor mostraron que la primera y segunda condiciones de la prueba estadística anterior fueron confirmadas y los Distritos 2, 3 y 8 tienen el mejor rango en términos de valor Q, respectivamente, y el resultado final es correcto
Representing the image of women in the travelogue "From Paris to Paris " Bahram Rezaei visheh sorai 1 | Mohammad Ali Khazane Darlo2 | Mahmoud Ranjbar3
No full textOne of the most important works in which the image of another, both "intra-cultural other" and "extra-cultural other" is reflected, is the travelogue. In this type of writing, images of women, men, cities, special places of pilgrimage, tourism, etc. can be the subject of imagery. This article is written in a descriptive-analytical way by combining the three approaches of critical discourse analysis, representation and imagery. The purpose of this research is to analyze the representation of various types of images of women and the assumptions that the author made in the framework of this type of representation. The results of the research show that in the travelogue "From Pariz to Paris" women with eastern and western nationalities are divided into two categories: historical women and contemporary women. The author represents the images of historical women indirectly and through the study of texts (intertextual) and the representation of images of contemporary women - who is either directly connected with them through personal experience or indirectly or directly , through communication with others (impersonal),has heard about them - with a combined experience (combination of face-to-face and impersonal experience).In this travelogue, the various titles of the author are placed in the shadow of the identity of "master intellectual of history" and with this identity, the image of contemporary women and historical court women and public women in the East and West is represented
A Morphological Analysis of Ergonomic Design Reconfigurations for Crutch Versatility in the Environment of Use
No full textNowadays, there are complications in the environments where the crutch is being used, which cause discomfort for users throughout the use and therapy period. There are many flaws in cities’ infrastructure. Using a simple search on the internet, it can be claimed that standard crutches have an array of design faults and ergonomic problems, and users seek to fix the problems with non-industrial solutions and home treatments. For this reason, various accessories for crutches are being produced, and even designers have proposed new types of crutches as replacements. However, the majority of them still didn’t pass the human-centered research procedure.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Applied Ergonomics and Desig
Synthesis and spectroscopic identification of a new series of 2-iminothia-zolidin-4-one compounds from aromatic heterocyclic primary amines
No full textThe relationship between protein structural characteristics and temperature optimum for activity of the mercuric reductase from two species of bacteroidetes
No full textDuring the past five decades, mercury has gained increased interest due to its toxicity to human and environmental health. Therefore, mercury detoxification, whereby the mercuric reductase (MR), a homodimer of MerA (Figure 3 10), converts Hg2+ to Hg0, is an important activity. merA, the gene encoding MerA, has been found in diverse Archaea and Bacteria [1], but it is not well known in the Bacteroidetes, a large phylum in the bacterial domain that is widely distributed in many environments. The goal of this study was to identify protein structural characteristics that relate to MerA temperature optimum for activity in two species of the phylum Bacteroidetes: one a thermophile, Rhodothermus marinus, and the other a psychrophile, Flavobacterium. sp. SOK62. The standard MerA assay [2] was optimized by adjusting pH, selecting the reducing substrates (NADH/NADPH) and the type and concentration of thiol agent. Using the optimized assay, I found that the optimum temperature for MerA of R. marinus was at 65-70˚C (activity range from 30 to 90 ºC) and for the psychrophilic MerA (strain SOK62) was at 50-55 ˚C (range from 10 to 90 ºC). Homology modeling (Figure 3 7) of the psychrophilic and thermophilic MerA (homology to a proteobacterial MerA from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAT) showed that the psychrophile’s MerA (SOK62) has more α-helix and less β-sheet secondary structure than the thermophile’s MerA (R. marinus), which is shown in Table 3 5. MerA of SOK62 has more polar residues and less hydrophobic residues, suggesting adaptation to activity at lower temperatures [3]than MerA of R. marinus. In contrast, the psychrophile’s MerA has a larger number of aromatic residues than the R. marinus enzyme, contradicting the expectation of a lower number of bulky residues in a psychrophilic protein. These experiments test the hypothesis that because MerA originated among thermophiles in geothermal environments [4], the MerA from a psychrophilic bacterium has a thermophilic enzyme activity optimum and structural adaptations facilitating activity at low temperatures. This study contributes to our understanding of the natural history of microbial mercury detoxification.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Bahram Manav
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